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Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

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88%
Yes
12%
No
80%
Yes
10%
No
5%
Yes, but only increase funding for personalized care instead of subsidizing pharmaceutical companies
2%
No, incentivize private companies to address this issue instead
4%
Yes, our mental healthcare system needs more funding to provide a higher quality of care and services
0%
No, and too many people are abusing the system by making false disability claims
0%
No, and the government should not be involved in healthcare

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 @8NW83TJfrom Alberta  answered…4yrs4Y

The government should fund research into appropriate treatments.

 @9HXZTXMfrom Ontario  answered…12mos12MO

There needs to be more mental health care professionals as so many people are falling through the cracks and not getting help

 @9FGPSTVfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

We need the mentally ill medicated and not wandering the streets homeless.

 @9F5KMPVfrom Alberta  answered…1yr1Y

Therapy and counseling should be free . A person cannot be physically healthy if they are mentally ill. Mental health care should be included in universal health care. We need to be researching mental illness more and give more funding so people who are in need get quality therapy. Diagnosing mental disorders should be free as well.

 @9VPJ7SWfrom British Columbia  answered…3mos3MO

We don't have enough mental health practitioners. I think the government should be offering financial help or rebates or something to people who want to go to university to train in this field.

 @9GXZCH4from Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

No, increase funding into subsidizing healthy foods, and increase funding to physical education, sleep, and life practices.

 @9G6LS2Nfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Bring back the Mental Hospitals. now all of us Guinee pigs are loose in the public. and only increase funding for personalized care instead of subsidizing pharmaceutical companies

 @9FM2Z9Tfrom Alberta  answered…1yr1Y

i dont have a problem with mental heatlh as long as they mental dont cause problems with me

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 @SeahorseFrankie from Illinois linked…1yr1Y

AI predicts when you will die

Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses the story of a person's life to predict their future and it is accurate about 78 per cent of the time.They now have a model that understands everyday language and can guess at things like if someone might die young or how much they could earn in their lifetime.The study shows being a boy, having mental health problems or working skilled jobs can mean shorter lifespans, while earning lots of money or leading other people can add years to your life. The system, life2vec, treats each part of your life story like bits in a sentence to guess what's coming up based on whats already happened.Scientists have developed a new AI system called life2vec that uses data from 2008 to 2016 to predict simple questions like "death within four years?" for any given person. Scarily enough, it correctly guessed who would die by 2020 over three-quarters of the time.Sune Lehmann, the lead researcher, says that the system isn't open to the public or companies, to meet GDPR standards and keep private information safe: "We are actively working on ways to share some of the results more openly, but this requires further research to be done in a way that can guarantee the privacy of the people in the study."The report was published in Nature Computational Science. Sune Lehmann, a professor at Denmark Technical University, explained how life2vec works. He said it's similar to language models like ChatGPT: it learns from a vast amount of pre-existing written data, except life2vec is taught using data from people's lives.Sentences like "In September 2012, Francisco received twenty thousand Danish kroner as a guard at a castle in Elsinore" or "During her third year at secondary boarding school, Hermione followed five elective classes." were given different tokens by the scientists. These pieces of data were all mapped out in relation to each other.

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